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35 produkter
Novel to Film
An Introduction to the Theory of Adaptation
Häftad, 1996
998 kr
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`It wasn't as good as the book' - this is the response to many a film adaptation, and even the starting point of many film reviews. Novel to Film is the first sytematic theoretical account of the process by which the great (and not so great) works of literature are transformed into the good, bad …
New Australian Cinema
Sources and Parallels in American and British Film
Av Brian McFarlane, Geoff Mayer
Häftad, 1992
569 kr
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The institutions and products of the Australian film industry have been extensively surveyed, yet few analyses consider the sources of the film revival that took place in the 1970s and 1980s. This book represents a body of thinking about Australian cinema that asks where the origins of films lie. …
Screen Adaptations: Great Expectations
A close study of the relationship between text and film
Av Brian McFarlane, Deborah Cartmell
Häftad, 2008
400 kr
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A close study of the relationship between text and film versions of Great Expectations. Literature and film studies students will find plenty of material to support their courses and essay writing on how the film versions provide different readings of the original text. Focussing on David Lean's …
Lance Comfort
Häftad, 2013
394 kr
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In the years between 1941 and 1965, Lance Comfort made some of the most entertaining films in Britain. There was the striking success of his second feature as director, Hatter’s Castle (1941) and when he returned to this melodramatic vein in 1945 he made a series of highly proficient and enjoyable …
Humphrey Jennings
Av Keith Beattie, Brian McFarlane m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1192 kr
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Humphrey Jennings has been described as the only real poet that British cinema has produced. His documentary films are remarkable records of Britain at peace and war, and his range of representational approaches transcended accepted notions of wartime propaganda and revised the strict codes of …
Real and Reel
The Education of a Film Critic
Häftad, 2011
470 kr
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From a little before ten years of age Brian McFarlane became addicted to stories told on the screen, and the mere fact that he had difficulty in getting to see the films he wanted - or any for that matter - only made them seem more alluring. But it wasn't just seeing the films that mattered: he …
Twenty British Films
A Guided Tour
Inbunden, 2015
1192 kr
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Anyone who has loved British films will want to read this book. In choosing twenty films, many of them of classics of their kind – think of Brief Encounter, The Third Man, Genevieve – as well as some less well-known titles, the author communicates his enthusiasm for the sheer range of British …
Screen Adaptations: Great Expectations
A Close Study of the Relationship Between Text and Film
E-bok, 2008
389 kr
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A close study of the relationship between text and film versions of Great Expectations . Literature and film studies students will find plenty of material to support their courses and essay writing on how the film versions provide different readings of the original text. Focussing on David Lean''s …
Screen Adaptations: Great Expectations
A Close Study of the Relationship Between Text and Film
E-bok, 2014
397 kr
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A close study of the relationship between text and film versions of Great Expectations . Literature and film studies students will find plenty of material to support their courses and essay writing on how the film versions provide different readings of the original text. Focussing on David Lean''s …
101 Fascinating Hockey Facts
E-bok, 2019
141 kr
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101 fascinating stories about hockey that will enlighten and delight fans.Have you heard about the referee who was dragged back to the rink by an angry mob demanding he change the result? Or the playoff goal that was scored with half a puck? Or the fourteen-year-old who played in a professional …
101 Fascinating Hockey Facts
E-bok, 2019
99 kr
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101 fascinating stories about hockey that will enlighten and delight fans.Have you heard about the referee who was dragged back to the rink by an angry mob demanding he change the result? Or the playoff goal that was scored with half a puck? Or the fourteen-year-old who played in a professional …
Films of Fred Schepisi
Häftad, 2021
387 kr
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Fred Schepisi is one of the crucial names associated with the revival of the Australian film industry in the 1970s. The Films of Fred Schepisi traces the lead-up to his critical successes in feature filmmaking, via his earlier award-winning success as a producer in advertising commercials in the …
Films of Fred Schepisi
Inbunden, 2021
1245 kr
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Fred Schepisi is one of the crucial names associated with the revival of the Australian film industry in the 1970s. The Films of Fred Schepisi traces the lead-up to his critical successes in feature filmmaking, via his earlier award-winning success as a producer in advertising commercials in the …
Four from the Forties
Arliss, Crabtree, Knowles and Huntington
Inbunden, 2018
1302 kr
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The ‘Gainsborough melodramas’ were a mainstay of 1940s British cinema, and helped make the careers of such stars as Margaret Lockwood, James Mason and Stewart Granger. But what was unique about these films? And who were the directors behind them? This book presents four key filmmakers, each with …
Never-Ending Brief Encounter
E-bok, 2019
273 kr
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This is a book for all those who have been absorbed and moved by Brief Encounter in the seventy or so years since its first appearance. It explores the central relationship of the film, where two people who fall unexpectedly in love come to realise that there is more to life than …
Never-Ending Brief Encounter
E-bok, 2019
273 kr
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This is a book for all those who have been absorbed and moved by Brief Encounter in the seventy or so years since its first appearance. It explores the central relationship of the film, where two people who fall unexpectedly in love come to realise that there is more to life than …
Lance Comfort
E-bok, 2019
237 kr
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In the years between 1941 and 1965, Lance Comfort made some of the most entertaining films in Britain. There was the striking success of his second feature as director, Hatter’s Castle (1941) and when he returned to this melodramatic vein in 1945 he made a series of highly proficient and enjoyable …
Michael Winterbottom
Av Brian McFarlane, Deane Williams
E-bok, 2019
1206 kr
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This is the first book-length study of the most prolific and most critically acclaimed director working in British cinema today. Michael Winterbottom has also established himself, and his company, Revolution Films, as a dynamic force in world cinema. No other British director can claim such an …
Encyclopedia of British Film
Fifth Edition
Av Brian McFarlane, Anthony Slide
Häftad, 2021
2278 kr
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Featuring more than 6,500 articles, including over 350 new entries, this fifth edition of The Encyclopedia of British Film is an invaluable reference guide to the British film industry. It is the most authoritative volume yet, stretching from the inception of the industry to the present day, with …
Roger Michell
Inbunden, 2026
1294 kr
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This book offers the first serious critical study of Roger Michell’s career as a filmmaker. Best known for Notting Hill, Michell brought a distinctive sensitivity to his work in both the UK and the US, across genres ranging from romantic comedy to historical drama.While Michell had success in …
Outback
Westerns in Australian Cinema
Inbunden, 2024
1290 kr
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Focusing on the incidence of the ‘Westerns’ film genre in the 120-odd years of Australian cinema history, exploring how the American genre has been adapted to the changing Australian social, political and cultural contexts of their production, including the shifting emphases in the representation …
Outback
Westerns in Australian Cinema
Häftad, 2026
495 kr
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Focusing on the incidence of the ‘Westerns’ film genre in the 120-odd years of Australian cinema history, exploring how the American genre has been adapted to the changing Australian social, political and cultural contexts of their production, including the shifting emphases in the representation …
British 'B' Film
Av Steve Chibnall, Brian McFarlane
E-bok, 2019
579 kr
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This is the first book to provide a thorough examination of the British ''B'' movie, from the war years to the 1960s. The authors draw on archival research, contemporary trade papers and interviews with key ''B'' filmmakers to map the ''B'' movie phenomenon both as artefact and as industry product, …
British 'B' Film
Av Steve Chibnall, Brian McFarlane
Häftad, 2009
534 kr
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This is the first book to provide a thorough examination of the British 'B' movie, from the war years to the 1960s. The authors draw on archival research, contemporary trade papers and interviews with key 'B' filmmakers to map the 'B' movie phenomenon both as artefact and as industry product, and …
British 'B' Film
Av Steve Chibnall, Brian McFarlane
E-bok, 2017
579 kr
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This is the first book to provide a thorough examination of the British ''B'' movie, from the war years to the 1960s. The authors draw on archival research, contemporary trade papers and interviews with key ''B'' filmmakers to map the ''B'' movie phenomenon both as artefact and as industry product, …
Cinema of Britain and Ireland
Av Brian Mcfarlane, Roy Ward Baker m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
298 kr
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Cinema of Britain and Ireland
Av Brian Mcfarlane, Roy Ward Baker m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
869 kr
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Double Act
The Remarkable Lives & Careers of Googie Withers & John McCallum
Häftad, 2015
387 kr
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Not many can boast of careers that lasted successfully for nearly seventy years, but that is what both Googie Withers and John McCallum achieved. Googie portrayed everything from brazen murderesses to Lady Bracknell, taking in blonde nitwits, wartime Resistance workers, lady farmers and Shakespeare …
Richard Lester
Av Neil Sinyard, Brian McFarlane m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1192 kr
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Richard Lester is of the most significant yet misunderstood directors of the post-war era. Indelibly associated with the Beatles and the ‘swinging Sixties’ because of his direction of A Hard Day’s Night and Help and his joyous sex comedy The Knack, Lester has tended to be categorised as a modish …
